Latest Gaming industry news
Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
News The BGS Union says employees were "almost immediately" instructed to dismantle their memorial.
Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership, calling into question Microsoft's continued commitment to accessibility initiatives
News Accessibility efforts have been some of Microsoft's biggest wins—but that didn't stop it from cutting accessibility leads.
Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs
news The senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma points the finger at Xbox's previous strategy for yesterday's sweeping layoffs: 'We simply spread ourselves too thin'
news Sharma didn't mention former CEO Phil Spencer by name or assign individual blame, but said Xbox is struggling because it neglected its "core business."
John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left
News "I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."
IO Interactive says Project Fantasy isn't dead, but confirms that layoffs are happening
news This isn't the sort of thing that should be happening a month after the release of a major, successful game like 007 First Light, but such is the way of the games industry.
It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027
News I'm sure this is great for morale.
Even Obsidian couldn't escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who'd only been there 2 months
news No news was not, in fact, good news.
